Japanese authorities 'provisionally' declared the country's nuclear accident a level-7 event on the international scale for nuclear disasters. The amount of radioactive iodine released by the reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant was ...

Radioactive water leak stopped Map of Fukushima Japan The leak of highly radioactive water into the Pacific from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has stopped

Water radiation millions of times over limit

An attempt to plug a leak of highly radioactive water from a nuclear reactor has shown a significant difference, despite the material not setting

Tokyo Electric: an attempt to plug the leak had shown a 'significant difference,' despite the material not setting as hoped.
The company had injected a silica-based polymer, 'liquid glass' to reduce the leak

Meltdown alert at Japan reactor Map of Fukushima Japan Technicians are battling to stabilise a third reactor at a quake-stricken Japanese nuclear plant, which has been rocked by a second blast in three days.

Mar.13

Explosion at Japan nuclear plant

PM: Japan crisis 'worst since WWII'

Mar.12

Fears for second Japanese reactor

Exodus from Japan nuclear plant An estimated 170,000 people have been evacuated from the area around a quake-damaged nuclear power station hat was hit by an explosion

A 8.9 earthquakeis causing a tsunami that swept debris miles inland. Dozens of nations, including the U.S., are under a tsunami warning

The most powerful earthquake to hit Japan in 100 years unleashed walls of water that swept across rice fields, engulfing towns, dragging houses onto highways and tossing cars and boats, killing hundreds and forcing the evaucations of tens of thousands